Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preach and organize, lecture and write...
Competition in the Editorial Department implies a good literary style and an ability for lucid expression within limited space. Candidates will be expected to write editorials daily on topics connected with the University, or on subjects of humorous or political interest...
Thus exalted, John Lord proceeded to write melodrama and farce comedies for Broadway, not to be flippant but in all honest gusto. And it was then that he pursued and married Bernice Harden, icy and feline. After he had consumed the inner fire she had for him, turned openly to Eva Freyne, a hard worldling, and written his greatest book, Bernice forced him back to her and delicately smothered his life-until the War. What the War meant to him, and why he did what he did in an airplane, are his ultimate revelation, made by himself in a letter...
...parents, privately educated, was not very old when she presented herself to a startled publisher as the author of Other People's Houses, a novel which he was eager and fortunate to publish. That was 17 years ago when girls just out of their teens simply did not write novels, let alone good ones. She carried the thing further with A Big Horse to Ride (1911) and queened it in all the studios that counted. Then, abruptly, she stopped writing,. married and went out to Washington, to raise hogs and struggle with a husband of whom the less said...
...effort to be assistant managing editor, managing editor, and president. You are competing for the opportunity to give up still other theatres, dances, and bridge, while you so on in the effort to be assistant managing editor, managing editor, and president. You are competing for the chance to write headlines, to try and fit 15 letters into a space meant for 14, a chance to edit copy, to rate the news value of stories; a chance to go downstairs and make up the next day's issue, to take the type in your hands and but in the forms...